Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi (1013–1103) (Arabic: إسحاق الفاسي, Hebrew: ר' יצחק אלפסי), also known as the Alfasi or by his Hebrew acronym, the Rif (Rabbi Isaac...

football player Isaac Albéniz (1860–1909), Spanish pianist and composer Isaac Alfasi (1013–1103), Algerian Talmudist and jurist Isaac II Angelos (1156–1204)...

Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel (Hebrew: יצחק בן יהודה אברבנאל;‎ 1437–1508), commonly referred to as Abarbanel (Hebrew: אַבַּרבְּנְאֵל; also spelled Abravanel...

(Hebrew: רבי שלמה יצחקי‎; Latin: Salomon Isaacides; French: Salomon ben Isaac de Troyes; c. 1040 – 13 July 1105), commonly known by the acronym Rashi...

moralist Rabbenu Gershom, 11th century German Talmudist and legalist Isaac Alfasi, (Hilkhot haRif), 11th century North African and Spanish Talmudist and...

of the Rif (Rabbi Isaac Alfasi)—also an adumbration—but differs in quoting later authorities: Maimonides, the Tosafists and Alfasi himself. One theory...

closest students were the Isaac ben Sheshet and Hasdai Crescas. His best-known work is his commentary and explanation of Isaac Alfasi's Sefer Ha-halachot, which...

Judah (Nos. 19, 20), Isaac (No. 21), and Moses ibn Ezra (No. 16), R. Baruch (Nos. 23, 28), Meïr ibn Migas (No. 27), Isaac Alfasi, head of the yeshiva...

Judah ben Isaac Messer Leon (1166–1224) was a French tosafist born in Paris. Born in 1166 in Paris, France, his father Rabbi Isaac Treves was a rabbi in...

HaRif was written by the Rabbi Isaac Alfasi (1013–1103); it has summations of the legal material found in the Talmud. Alfasi transcribed the Talmud's halakhic...

גיאת' ימינה)." According to some authorities, he was the teacher of Isaac Alfasi; according to others, his fellow pupil. His best-known students were...

and philosophy. Nachmanides' known halakhic works - after the model of Isaac Alfasi - are: Mishpetei ha-Cherem, the laws concerning excommunication, reproduced...

Smith Immanuel Kant Isaac Alfasi Isaac Canpanton Isaac Cardoso Isaac Nathan ben Kalonymus Isaac Orobio de Castro Isaac ben Sheshet Isaac ibn Latif J.P. Moreland...

important religious questions with the utmost freedom and was joined by Isaac Albalag and others. Opposed to these was another tendency, the chief object...

and Russian submarine-launched ballistic missile Isaac Alfasi (1013–1103), Rabbi Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi (1013—1103), was a Talmudist and posek Riffian people...

associated with Chananel ben Chushiel. His most famous student is probably Isaac Alfasi. Nissim maintained an active correspondence with Hai ben Sharira and...

father, who had in turn studied under Joseph ibn Migash, a student of Isaac Alfasi. At an early age, Maimonides developed an interest in sciences and philosophy...

replacement of the Talmud study with the exclusive study of the codes of Isaac Alfasi and Maimonides. While Jews in Muslim countries had a wide variety of...

Isaac the Blind (Hebrew: רַבִּי יִצְחַק סַגִּי נְהוֹר Rabbī Yīṣḥaq Saggī Nəhōr, literally "Rabbi Isaac, of much light"; c. 1160–1235 in Provence, France)...

strong disagreements with Isaac Alfasi, before his death he asked his son Baruch to go to Lucena and study with him. Alfasi adopted Baruch who eventually...

as Isaac Alfasi (North Africa, 1013–1103) attempted to extract and determine the binding legal opinions from the vast corpus of the Talmud. Alfasi's work...

disputing Rambam or Rif) Gedolei HaPoskim ("The Greatest of the Poskim") – Isaac Alfasi Gedolei HaMechabrim ("The Greatest of the Authors") – Rambam Geonei Sefarad...

Jews left Amsterdam in 1642, accompanied by two distinguished scholars—Isaac Aboab da Fonseca and Moses Raphael de Aguilar. Jews supported the Dutch...

commentary of Asher ben Jehiel. He also wrote commentaries on the writings of Isaac Alfasi and certain works of Nahmanides. "YOM-ṬOB BEN ABRAHAM ISHBILI - JewishEncyclopedia...

historian Isaac Alfasi (1013–1103), Moroccan Talmudist, posek and rabbi Malika al-Fassi (1908–1991), Moroccan writer and nationalist Masa'ud Raphael Alfasi (died...

"There is a regulation of the Geonim", while the opinions of Isaac Alfasi and Alfasi's pupil Joseph ibn Migash are prefaced by the words "my teachers...

Horowitz vol. 1 p. 452; Menachem Recanati Pithkei Harakanti Chap. 586; Isaac Alfasi Teshuvath HaRif Chapter 297 Menachem Mendel Schneerson Igrot Kodesh vol...

capacity of rabbi and Rosh yeshiva of Kairouan. His most famous student is Isaac Alfasi. According to R. Abraham Ibn Daud, R. Chananel was also successful in...

Qusta ibn Luqa, Al-Farabi, Al-Fergani, Chonain, Isaac Israeli, Ibn Tufail, Ibn Zuhr, Isaac Alfasi, and Maimonides.[citation needed] Gersonides held...

and the dicta of the Talmud through the Rishonim. He used the code of Isaac Alfasi as his starting point; these views are then compared to those of Maimonides...